Molecular interactions between sex hormones and Pluronic F127: Insights from the classic Langmuir-Blodgett trough for diagnostic medical dev

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U-RHYTHM, www.u-rhythm.co.uk, is a groundbreaking wearable diagnostic clinical research device at the Bristol Medical School that uses micro-dialysis to sample hormones directly from human interstitial fluid at closely-space intervals throughout the day and night, monitoring the dynamics of hundreds of metabolites and advancing the field of endocrinology[1]. However, ultra-hydrophobic sex hormones cannot be currently detected due to a combination of their low concentrations and their adsorption to the device tubing. Here, we propose a first comprehensive XRR study at the air-water interface to evaluate the F127 Langmuir monolayer structure due to molecular interactions between F127 monolayers and sex hormones with various molecular architectures (Fig. 1), at different surface pressures, temperatures and concentrations. Such fundamental insights from the model system will provide critical nanostructural evidence for the proposed mechanism for enabling enhanced capacity of the U-RHYTHM t

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-2108131780
Metadata Access https://icatplus.esrf.fr/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatplus.esrf.fr:inv/2108131780
Provenance
Creator Xiaolu HE; Hongye LI; Guangzhen WANG; Sofia ROGERS RUIZ ORCID logo; Diego PONTONI ORCID logo; Elena VENTURELLI; Egor BERSENEV ORCID logo; Wuge H BRISCOE
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2028
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields